Cultural metaphors and schemata in the representation of river in Hungarian folk songs
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2018.2.156Keywords:
cultural conceptualizations, Cultural Linguistics, cultural metaphor, folk conceptualization, folk song, image schemaAbstract
The aim of this paper is to disentangle the conceptual net lurking behind the appearance of rivers in the context of love in Hungarian folk songs. The theoretical framework of the paper is given by Cultural Linguistics, a branch of cognitive linguistics studying interrelationships of language, culture, and conceptualization. A corpus study of folk songs suggests that one of the main sources of the representation of human feelings is people’s experience of nature, implemented in metaphors concerning the natural environment. It can be stated on the basis of the folk songs studied here that metaphoric reference to rivers can be traced back to the conceptual metaphor emotions are watercourses appearing in a number of specific metaphors and image schemas deeply rooted in cultural experiences. The representational structure of folk songs is organised by an overall cultural schema, chastity, emerging from village dwellers’ strict moral norms. The study shows that natural scenes of folk songs are associated with conceptual metaphors, in particular, emotion-metaphors, but a genuine (and full) explanation can only be given in terms of the notion of love as entertained by traditional Hungarian communities and the related socio-cultural norms and moral principles of those communities.
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